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Ken Bates: from a London council flat to sunny Monaco, the colourful destiny of English football’s ‘enfant terrible’
The architect of Chelsea’s renaissance before selling the team to Roman Abramovitch, the businessman is enjoying a quiet retirement in the Principality. Relatively quiet, that is, as Ken Bates soon rediscovered the verve he is known for, particularly when …